rthstewart | 3 Sentence Ficathon

EDIT! THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS, PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE!

CaramelSilver isn’t running the awesome 3 sentence ficathon this year, but she said I could do it in her place!! (Banner courtesy of CaramelSilver and thanks so much!)

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do?
You post prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please.

What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt allowed.

I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

Can anyone play?
Yes! Please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

I'm cross-posting to LJ but we will keep all prompts and fills here, so they are in one awesome place (and with less spam).

Here's a link for spreading the word to all your friends and comms (thanks

snacky !)

How long can it go?
CaramelSilver kept the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon up for a month. I'd suggest closing it on Sunday, April 7, 2013. How does that sound? (edit: If we reach 5,000 comments sooner, I'll start a new one).

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. Last year, a lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag.

Gosh who are all these people writing such great prompts and fills?
Good question! Come to the friending meme and introduce yourself if you like.

lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon,

grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.

lady_songsmith has reactivated the archive on delicious for this challenge, so, here is the account ~~(nothing current added yet, though~~): https://previous.delicious.com/3sentence She asks that if anyone would be willing to help knock down the backlog of the prolific-ness thus far, let her know!! (She adds: I know folks are kinda down on delicious with the changes, but, hey, it's an archive already set up with useful tags!)

On the subject of archiving, I really encourage people to collect and post their fills elsewhere. That way, we can find your work more easily again, redundancy is always good and it's really useful for future remixes and other challenges and gift exchanges you might participate in. I'll start a linking post so that if you do collect all your fills and post them on your own blog or an archive like AO3, you can give give us the link in comments.

edited March 12, 2013
edited March 13, 2013 to fix box coding problem (thanks to those who helped!) and to add link to friending meme
edited March 15, 2013 to add information on archiving.
edited March 24, 2013 to close post to new prompts.

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"You have remarkable intuition and skill, Captain Organa," the old man says after Leia's just corkscrewed the Tantive out of an Imperial blockade of Tatooine and safely into hyperspace.

"She's a fast ship, I'm a good captain, and we're lucky," Leia says with a shrug but inside she's trying to pin down that nagging, nudging something that made it seem like killing Greedo was a good idea to make sure no one else got this insane commission.

"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck."

YES. Your Captain Leia Organa is a thing that needs to exist; and which begs the question, what is Han doing during all of this? And the Force is with her nevertheless! :D :D :D

what is Han doing during all of this?

Maybe,
Han bolts up from the couch when the cell door opens and there's a very short stromtrooper standing there with an even more vacant than usual expression on his blankly helmeted face.
The trooper yanks the helmet off and exclaims, "I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you!"
Han laughs.

[I admit I never shipped Han and Luke]

But,

"So what do you think of him?" Luke asks.
"I'm trying not to," Leia mutters, even though Solo's really gotten under her skin.
"Good," Luke replies.

[Or, STOP ME]

Leia likes to show off as much as the next pilot, but she'd really not wanted to impress Solo by navigating an asteroid field to escape the Imperial slugs when her sense (which Luke kept saying was the Force) kept nagging her that there was something really, really wrong with the rock she'd landed on.

But then she catches Solo unawares intent on soldering a bad seal that he knew had been bothering her forever and that she'd never gotten around to fixing. He's tall, lean, handles the torch with the same deft skill that uses when running agents, Alliance briefings, and gunning TIEs and Leia feels a warm rush that this time she's not going ignore.

Edited 2013-03-15 02:53 (UTC)

WHEEEEEE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MAKES ME HAPPY. I can't decide which one I like best. I love them all. The first one is hysterical, the second one FEELSY, the last one so awesomely Leia and shippy and fluffy and HAN BEING COMPETENT WITH A TORCH BE STILL MY BEATING HEART I LOVED THAT SCENE FROM THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT, that scruffy nerfherder.

Or, STOP ME
Nope! *beams* This is just too amazing in every way, sorry. Han just chilling on his couch! Leia and Luke snarking in the cockpit! He happens to like nice women (Leia's nice!). ♥ ♥ ♥
Ooh, can you picture Padme and Anakin (or Obi-Wan replacing either of the two as you prefer) switching places like this? Or let's be honest, just anything else in this 'verse (if you'd like to, of course) because it really is fantastic :D

OMFG ALL OF THIS IS MADE OF SHINY SPARKLY FEELS OF GLORIOUSNESS

Oh, I like ALL Of these.

Are there SW stories out there with awesome Leia? Cause I would read those...

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